Improvement in heels for boots or shoes



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE V. KEENE, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HEELS FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

Specification forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 34,037, dated December 24, 1861.

To tzr/ZZ whom if may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. KEENE, of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Heel for Boots or Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which* Figure l is a View of my improved heel; Fig. 2, a transverse section; and Fig. 3, a longitudinal section through the heel, showing the nails and the bottom lift, which covers the heads of the nails.

To enable others skilled in the art to uinderstand my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

Rises of leather1 are cut to near the form to be given to the heel, and are placed, in sufcientnumber to produce the required height, in a press by which the hollow for the heel is formed, and the leather is compressed, the surfaces between which the heel is compressedbeing of iron. Holes for the nails are now made in the heel. This maybe done at the time the heel is compressed or by a separate operation. The nails care then inserted and the heel is returned to the press,

by the Operation of which the nails are driven through the heel and clinched upon the upper surface at the same time the heel receives a final compression. A thin lift a, of leather, is then secured to the bottom surface of the heel to conceal the heads of the nails, and the heel is subsequently brought to the exact form and size required by paring or by cutting in a suitable machine.

I am aware that heels have been formed of a suitable number of rises secured together by cement or glue, which were afterward secured to the shoe or boot by nails. VI do no't therefore claim such a heel.

I am also aware that heels have been secured to boots and shoes by punching the holes and driving the nails by machinery. I do not therefore claim such operation; but

Vhat I do claim as my invention,and desire to secure by Letters Patent as an article 't of manufacture, is-

A heel formed of successive rises united by nails, which are driven and clinched at the time the heel is compressed, as set forth. 

